Figure 1: National Survey Questionnaire

1.  Does your local or regional government use a Geographic 
    Information System (GIS)?  
    YES       NO
    If  YES , please complete this survey form.   
    If  NO , please return the survey at this point.

2.  In what level of government is your GIS operated ?  (Circle One)
    a.)  city or town     
    b.)  county     
    c.)  multi-district    
    d.)  other (please specify)_____________________________________

3.  What are the storage requirements of your GIS database
    (spatial and attribute data)? ( Circle One )
    a.)  <500 Mb        
    b.)  500 - 999 Mb 
    c.)  1  - 9 Gb
    d.)  10 - 29  Gb
    e.)  30 - 49 Gb  
    f.)  50 +  Gb
 
4.  How does your GIS agency currently provide access to or copies
    of electronic GIS databases?   (Circle all that apply)
    a.)  Verbal requests             
    b.)  Access from Public Terminal
    c.)  Dial-up Access
    d.)  other (specify)___________________________________________

5.  What costs do you attempt to recover from requesters for digital
    copies of the  entire GIS database?      (Circle all that apply)
    a.)  no costs 
    b.)  costs of disks, tape, CD-ROM, other medium 
    c.)  costs of disseminating(mailing, staff time, etc.)  
    d.)  data maintenance costs (updates)
    e.)  hardware maintenance costs
    f.)  initial database development costs
    g.)  initial hardware & software costs
    h.)  other (please specify) ____________________________________ 

6.  How do you set a price to respond to a request for the entire digital 
    GIS database ?  (Circle one) 
    a.)  price based on cost of dissemination and duplication     
    b.)  partial cost recovery value   
    c.)  full cost recovery value of the data  
    d.)  market value 
    e.)  other (please specify) ____________________________________
                     
7.  What, approximately, would be the price for a request for the entire 
    GIS database ? $__________________

8.  Do you require the signing of a liability waiver statement, before
    distributing data? 
    YES       NO 

9.  Do you require that requesters NOT distribute the digital data 
    to others?
    YES       NO

10. Are secondary uses of electronic GIS data restricted by:  (circle all that apply)
    a.)  contracts    
    b.)  licenses 
    c.)  copyright  _______________________________________________
    d.)  trade secret   
    e.)  other (Please specify)____________________________________